Once again, Tawas came through for us! We kited 5 out of 5 days! A couple of the days were thanks to the Ozone Zephyr, a 17m light wind specific kite. It made non-kiteable days kiteable. We were jumping and cruising upwind with ease while all the other kiters were sitting on the beach.

On Monday and Tuesday we had fantastic conditions and we were able to use the new 9m C4 with the new Crazy Fly boards, super fun!

Everyone did super well and it was incredibly fun on and off the water!

Mike and the Ozone Zephyr, a massive kite for light winds

Taking out the Zephyr with the Spleene Door, a fantastic light wind combo

Jason Kite Skimming!

Our Brazilian friend, Marco, enjoying the day

Great day for lessons with Katie and Jeff

Light wind activities

Windy Sunday! Jeff upwind bodydragging

Stephen rockin his new Crazy Fly Shox

End to an awesome day!

Happy Monday - Great Wind!

Jason cruising upwind, what an accomplishment!

Nick and I paying our kiting dues with lots of upwind walking. Everyone's gotta do it sometime!

All the walking pays off, Nick is up and riding at the end of the trip!

My first time kiting while holding a camera, sorry a little shaky. Jason is on both videos, once with the blue Solo and then on the orange 9m C4 while I was using the white 11m Ozone C4. So fun to see Jason going upwind and everyone doing so well!

Thought I'd post a few more pics that I just downloaded from our Brazilian friend, Marco. Marco just went back to Brazil and we all miss having him here. We'll have to plan that snowkite trip this winter with Marco and his 15 Brazilian friends.

Toast to Marco! Sad to see you go. Looking forward to kiting with you hopefully again this winter!

As a kiter in the Chicago area, it helps if you are willing to explore. There are many beautiful beaches throughout IL, WI, IN and MI. Wind direction varies daily and there are very localized weather systems. Here is a little more info on that: http://www.chicagokitesurfing.com/lakemichiganwind.html

The Chicago kiting scene is fun and full of very active kiters, a great group of people. In order to connect with everyone the best thing to do is post on the ChicagoKitesurfing.com forum under WhereTo Ride. If you are planning on heading out kiting be sure to post even if no one else has because many people look at the forum. You can get advice on where it may be good that day and you will probably find people that would also like to go.http://www.chicagokitesurfing.com/kiteb ... m.php?f=11